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Plan and prosper

Whether working on a short-term project or developing a long-term strategy, project planning is an essential skill in today's solicitors' toolkit, if anything because clients...

Splitting hairs

Pets have unwittingly helped convict their owners but Britain's appellate courts are yet to test the reliability of 'furensic' evidence, says Richard Easton

There is another way of thinking about liberty

Applying concepts inherited from ancient Rome could allow us to take a more modern approach to deprivation of liberty safeguards, says David Hewitt

Securing greater rights for cohabitants

A new bill proposing statutory rights for cohabitants may be open to criticism but it would bring family law into the modern age, says Fiona...

Law firms no longer get passed from father to son

The current state of affairs is all I know, says Stuart Price

Time to grow your conveyancing business?

Bulk conveyancers will be first in line to make the best of ?the upturn in the property market, but you too could benefit, ?says Kent...

Conveyancing portal pilots to start next year

'This puts us in fairly and squarely in the 21st Century'

Employment law update

The latest initiatives, both at EU and UK levels, to align employment law with economic reality are once again likely to be out of sync,...